**2.2. The design of the ALIZA canvas**

The Eisenhower Decision Principle (EDP) has been popularized by Covey [4] in the creation of a *four quadrant Importance / Urgency Matrix* which is commonly utilized for time management. Leveraging Covey's four-quadrant approach to create *The ALIZA Canvas,* and supplementing it with a novel presentation procedure, it becomes feasible to efficiently bridge the communication gap between the primary and secondary stakeholders (Business and Technical Stakeholders in the manufacturing domain) as outlined in **Figure 1**.

**Figure 1.** The ALIZA canvas and procedure for population.

The compact format of The ALIZA Canvas empowers the Business Stakeholder to rapidly communicate *The ALIZA Function*, which must be achieved by the business, how *The ALIZA Strategy*, will deliver it and *The ALIZA Tools* which will be utilized to select the appropriate technologies. The Technical Stakeholders categorize the type of digitization technologies and select the most appropriate methods of achieving *The ALIZA Function.* It paints a clear picture for all the stakeholders, without focusing on the fact that they talk extremely different languages. The adage *a picture paints a thousand words* applies.

**2.4. Design of the I4 production scorecard (I4-PS)**

**Figure 2.** The ALIZA process explained.

The VDMA represents more than 3200 mostly medium-sized Companies in the capital goods industry in Germany, making it the largest Industry Association in Europe. The VDMA have produced guiding principles for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in small and medium sized businesses by utilizing *Toolbox Industry 4.0 for Production and Product* [5]. These toolboxes have valuable graphical content, but they also have an underlying process which makes them even more valuable. The Production toolbox utilizes a matrix of six functions arranged in rows and progressively more favorable status arranged in five columns. By assigning a numeric score to each column it becomes possible to create a numeric scorecard namely I4-PS Scorecard for Production. This approach also facilitates the utilization of numeric *Current* and *Target* scores to facilitate the quantification and management of improvement. A detailed analysis of the content of the I4-PS Scorecard reveals that the icons from left to right can be classified as *not connected, partially connected, fully connected, analyze & predict* and *adaptive* across each of the six functions contained in the rows. These classifications in conjunction with the scores assist the rapid formulation and communication of *The ALIZA Strategy* in a concise and accurate format.

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